@@yellowbirdie7182 Just referencing something Joe said in one of the streams of the first game. Always loved how Dana got basically no shit from him. Meanwhile, Alyssa…😂
The fact that David became a security officer at her school and was so obsessed with finding what happened to Chloe's Friday for her is actually super sweet.
Some thoughts on the game after watching this. I agree that RA's character is pretty unrealistic. I get why she is that way - she's meant to represent those real-life victims who everyone loved/adored/knew/wanted to be like/was inspiring and was suddenly murdered. But she is on another level. I was relived to see the flaws come through finally. Her suddenly switching character, being manipulative, being cold-shouldered, being passive-aggressive, and not to mention being a completely selfish and ignorant idiot. I also think the music that was swelling up during the scene with the tree and the fire wasn't meant for you to feel sorry for her but rather, feel sorry for Chloe lol. She just found someone she actually connected with heart to heart ever since Max left her life....and it just so happens to be a narcisstic, neurotic and unpredictable/whirlwind of a person. Also RA is literally the girlfriend who goes 'and I took that personally' and smashes your PS5 because she got angry at you for making a stupid mistake. also 10/10 one liner "damn you really are from California" gotteeeeem
love the comment about RA being the girlfriend who breaks your ps5 over a minor inconvenience, and how shes a narcissistic neurotic lunatic. kind of wish they had more moments showing rachel as a petty selfish mega bitch like in the junkyard where she didnt even communicate with chloe why she was upset and then brushed her off for trying to cheer her up, would have helped us really understand her for the toxic maniac shes supposed to be.
you can deconstruct and look deeply into something that’s poorly written. it definitely didn’t seem like they were “defending” the story. just literally what they said, “some thoughts”. Maybe you should try having some
3:15:47 unironically great idea honestly. I mean since these games suck at making someone look super smart or charming. So Rachel basically the definition of perfect with rewind powers (ex. Answering all questions right/ knowing what to say to everyone) and therefore knows how to manipulate anyone she comes across. Become a real human chameleon.
Considering how the original Life is Strange has similar vibes to Twin Peaks with Rachel Amber missing, I wonder if Firewalk is a reference to the prequel movie of Twin Peaks 'Fire walk with me'
It's more than similar vibes, Chloe has a twin peaks license plate, a psychologist named Dr Jacoby exists, Rachel is clearly loosely based off of Laura Palmer. I'm not mad at LiS for being inspired by twin peaks but it's more than just vibes. It's straight up inspired/ reverential of twin peaks. So I don't doubt the fire walk with me reference
I haven’t watched the future streams but I just wanted to put down my theory. Is it possible Rachel created the storm in the original game? It’s inferred she has wind powers so it’s possible that when Rachel was drugged and killed, she became so angry, confused, etc that it created the tornado. It could be similar to how Max almost broke reality itself, perhaps people with powers can reach a breaking point. Granted, it doesn’t explain the weird warning signs such as snow, animals dying, a sudden eclipse, and two moons. Perhaps some of these events were caused by Rachel and/or Max. The snow, eclipse, and double moon were Max’s time powers affecting reality while Rachel is more nature focused and caused so many animals to die. But if we run with this theory, it could also be why Chloe dying prevents the tornado, if Chloe dies her spirit is able to calm down Rachel. Hence why Rachel and Chloe are the only people represented with spirits, a doe and a butterfly. It also would make more sense as to why Rachel had so much importance despite the tornado being the overall threat, granted I doubt the writers had thought of this ahead of time but perhaps this is there way of tying Rachel with the tornado.
I like the friction between what you think Chloe is about to say/do when you pick an option and it being this out of left field or super awkward thing instead. With Life Is Strange, Joe was talking about how they're awkward on purpose, the medium is the message, etc. and it's nea. Frustrating, but in a pretty neat way
The difference between this game and the original is hardly discernable honestly. The hair looks better. The remaster of the first game does however look better than the original imo. They really didn't need to remaster this one though it looked perfectly acceptable before.
i see 5 minutes of the game and wanted to close the video already multiple times, this is gonna get wild. i can only imagine the sort of mind this dialogue and virtue signaling comes from... e: holy shit the dialogue, the implications.... this is bad... i cant watch all of that....
The facial expressions are so bad! I’ll never understand if you’re supposed to feel mixed about Chloe or not. They make her so hatable but the game frames everything like you 1:1 agree with her. Maybe I just don’t get it! I’m definitely not the target audience for this game so thanks Joe for going through this mess. The arguments are really good, though
Joe's complaints about Elden Ring sound exactly like my complaints about the first Dark Souls. Seems like the game's gone past his raw skill level and he's unwilling to use the easy mode. It's kinda funny actually.
If you watch the video you can see that's not the case, he show how easy it is to just dual-wield and jump attack, his complain is that it's unfair when you don't cheese the game and boring when you do cheese it
@@Lemoncit0 I don't see how that's different. Jump attacking is part of the easy mode. He's unwilling to use it because he wants to do it a certain way and his skill is too low to do it that way. He even admits that he _could_ do it if he put in the time but he doesn't want to.
@@mechanicalmonk2020 the problem is it's fucking boring, and I agree. You don't have to agree with me or Joe, but saying people don't like it because it's past their raw skill level is one of the stupidest arguments I have ever read, especially when a lot of people complaining love every other souls game
@@Lemoncit0 Year late but thx for this! I picked slow strength build in my playthrough. Although I loved the game I fell into this trap as well and felt like I had to resort to cheap strats when I never had that problem with any other souls title. It didn’t feel like a skill ceiling it felt more like the game expected me to play a certain way that I wasn’t interested in and didn’t need to use until near the end. I could have probably done it my way but the repetition and already long length of the game made me not excited to beat the challenge.
@@buster9877 Yeah, in ER boss combat feels less about skill and more like a puzzle on which build would work better , it is definitely not bad but it is a regression compared to previous fromsouls
1. The callback to the getting shot in the leg meme was legendary 2. Person: has their life slightly together. Joe: mArY sUe 3. It _is_ a lifetime. Not a very long one of course 4. Man Joe has an extra dose of reading things that aren't in the text or the subtext this time around, it's great 5. Trees do not burn that fast... Dafuq game. I wish I could start my bonfires that fast 6. Not liking the art style is a really weird reason to not play a game, especially for a critic 7. "Although one of the most emotional and poignant parts of it rings a bit hollow to me..." _oh is this the start of a nuanced tak_ "... and it's kinda dumb" 🫥 8. "I just really didn't like it I don't even know why" and then immediately follows it up with "it was dogshit" 🤦 9. Joseph Anderson professional critic talking about why he didn't like Hades story: "idk, ehh, idk, like, idk, nothing really ... Ehh" 10. Wholeheartedly agree on AI art and copyright. It's really fucked up that the training is done wholesale with no permissions. I would love to be in a world where AI art is trained on the work of people who are paid specifically to do so.
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Love that Rachel is treated like god because she is literally the only person in Blackwell who is both nice AND extroverted.
Dana?
@@Naomi-gr7fmshe’s a minor character, who cares
@@yellowbirdie7182Hey now, Dana was “best girl for no reason,” remember? 😂
@@biggcheese012 i thought Rachel is the best girl because she’s such a Mary Sue?
@@yellowbirdie7182 Just referencing something Joe said in one of the streams of the first game. Always loved how Dana got basically no shit from him. Meanwhile, Alyssa…😂
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Notice they didn't put an option to swing for the legs since it's far more deadly due to the several major arteries.
Theres major arteries in ur chest tho
@@yoshihammerbro435 watch the knife vs bat debate
I understood that reference
The fact that David became a security officer at her school and was so obsessed with finding what happened to Chloe's Friday for her is actually super sweet.
1:58:35
Joe taking offense on the dragonkin remark made giggle 😂
17:17 Joe’s expectations
25:20 ???
3:39:25 “damn you really are from California”
4:29:15 yuri
4:46:35 dark souls lore
Some thoughts on the game after watching this.
I agree that RA's character is pretty unrealistic. I get why she is that way - she's meant to represent those real-life victims who everyone loved/adored/knew/wanted to be like/was inspiring and was suddenly murdered. But she is on another level. I was relived to see the flaws come through finally. Her suddenly switching character, being manipulative, being cold-shouldered, being passive-aggressive, and not to mention being a completely selfish and ignorant idiot.
I also think the music that was swelling up during the scene with the tree and the fire wasn't meant for you to feel sorry for her but rather, feel sorry for Chloe lol. She just found someone she actually connected with heart to heart ever since Max left her life....and it just so happens to be a narcisstic, neurotic and unpredictable/whirlwind of a person.
Also RA is literally the girlfriend who goes 'and I took that personally' and smashes your PS5 because she got angry at you for making a stupid mistake.
also 10/10 one liner "damn you really are from California" gotteeeeem
Whats the calofornia joke i missed that
@@emanon69 extremely destructive forest fires
love the comment about RA being the girlfriend who breaks your ps5 over a minor inconvenience, and how shes a narcissistic neurotic lunatic. kind of wish they had more moments showing rachel as a petty selfish mega bitch like in the junkyard where she didnt even communicate with chloe why she was upset and then brushed her off for trying to cheer her up, would have helped us really understand her for the toxic maniac shes supposed to be.
@@Otsena all this mental gymnastic to defend a poorly written character/story.
you can deconstruct and look deeply into something that’s poorly written. it definitely didn’t seem like they were “defending” the story. just literally what they said, “some thoughts”. Maybe you should try having some
bearded man built like zangief: you really think you can take me?
16-year-old built like ibuki: yeah
okay whatever
3:15:47 unironically great idea honestly. I mean since these games suck at making someone look super smart or charming. So Rachel basically the definition of perfect with rewind powers (ex. Answering all questions right/ knowing what to say to everyone) and therefore knows how to manipulate anyone she comes across. Become a real human chameleon.
game start: 17:33
Considering how the original Life is Strange has similar vibes to Twin Peaks with Rachel Amber missing, I wonder if Firewalk is a reference to the prequel movie of Twin Peaks 'Fire walk with me'
It's more than similar vibes, Chloe has a twin peaks license plate, a psychologist named Dr Jacoby exists, Rachel is clearly loosely based off of Laura Palmer. I'm not mad at LiS for being inspired by twin peaks but it's more than just vibes. It's straight up inspired/ reverential of twin peaks. So I don't doubt the fire walk with me reference
What a king
I haven’t watched the future streams but I just wanted to put down my theory.
Is it possible Rachel created the storm in the original game? It’s inferred she has wind powers so it’s possible that when Rachel was drugged and killed, she became so angry, confused, etc that it created the tornado. It could be similar to how Max almost broke reality itself, perhaps people with powers can reach a breaking point. Granted, it doesn’t explain the weird warning signs such as snow, animals dying, a sudden eclipse, and two moons. Perhaps some of these events were caused by Rachel and/or Max. The snow, eclipse, and double moon were Max’s time powers affecting reality while Rachel is more nature focused and caused so many animals to die.
But if we run with this theory, it could also be why Chloe dying prevents the tornado, if Chloe dies her spirit is able to calm down Rachel. Hence why Rachel and Chloe are the only people represented with spirits, a doe and a butterfly. It also would make more sense as to why Rachel had so much importance despite the tornado being the overall threat, granted I doubt the writers had thought of this ahead of time but perhaps this is there way of tying Rachel with the tornado.
20 dollars for a shirt is dick all. The last concert I went to, I paid 45 for one and then another 65 for a hoodie
break ends about at 2:17:17
1:30:49 that desk smack sound sounds like a stock sound effect lol
The fact Joe thinks imagine dragons are alright PROVES to me he can’t identify rhythm in music it’s just sound to him
This game makes me like the original even more
Y what's so bad about it
I like the friction between what you think Chloe is about to say/do when you pick an option and it being this out of left field or super awkward thing instead. With Life Is Strange, Joe was talking about how they're awkward on purpose, the medium is the message, etc. and it's nea. Frustrating, but in a pretty neat way
These backtalk sections hit a new level of visceral cringe, I'm gonna parish
He really played the whole LiS series just to piss Steins Gate fans? Lmao.
Who tf would give their ID by saying “check it I’m totally legit”?? NO ONE of legal age would say that
Code Geass is honestly the GOAT.
disagree, when he touched his waifus ass and said gee i said “enough”! but really bad show lol i don’t understand what’s good about it
@@AnarchoCatBoyEthan I'm guessing you're trolling because I have no clue what you're talking about.
@@AnarchoCatBoyEthan L troll
Code Geass is good overall but it has some REALLY low lows
code gee ass, lmao duh.
999 supremacy-- i would love it if joe played the ds version to see the differences... But he'll prob never will, at least not on stream
30:53 Nathan did nothing wrong
Just OOOOFFFF
Is there a version that has the twitch chat available? I love the interactions between him and chat.
peertube.nodja.com/c/joestreams/video-playlists Nodja puts them up with chat on his thingy here.
3:14:52 naughty dog level motion capture
2:48:15 "Oh fuck off".
So Rachel is not a perfect person but a psychopath instead. Gotcha. Why does this prequel exist again?...
holy hell weird deja vu
huh what did he mean by this?
Not gonna lie, I'm hearing that DND section for the second time and it's still pretty good. I should probably look into this DND thing...
why did he choose the remastered version this looks awful
The difference between this game and the original is hardly discernable honestly. The hair looks better. The remaster of the first game does however look better than the original imo. They really didn't need to remaster this one though it looked perfectly acceptable before.
i see 5 minutes of the game and wanted to close the video already multiple times, this is gonna get wild. i can only imagine the sort of mind this dialogue and virtue signaling comes from...
e: holy shit the dialogue, the implications.... this is bad... i cant watch all of that....
The facial expressions are so bad! I’ll never understand if you’re supposed to feel mixed about Chloe or not. They make her so hatable but the game frames everything like you 1:1 agree with her. Maybe I just don’t get it! I’m definitely not the target audience for this game so thanks Joe for going through this mess. The arguments are really good, though
Joe's complaints about Elden Ring sound exactly like my complaints about the first Dark Souls. Seems like the game's gone past his raw skill level and he's unwilling to use the easy mode. It's kinda funny actually.
If you watch the video you can see that's not the case, he show how easy it is to just dual-wield and jump attack, his complain is that it's unfair when you don't cheese the game and boring when you do cheese it
@@Lemoncit0 I don't see how that's different. Jump attacking is part of the easy mode. He's unwilling to use it because he wants to do it a certain way and his skill is too low to do it that way. He even admits that he _could_ do it if he put in the time but he doesn't want to.
@@mechanicalmonk2020 the problem is it's fucking boring, and I agree.
You don't have to agree with me or Joe, but saying people don't like it because it's past their raw skill level is one of the stupidest arguments I have ever read, especially when a lot of people complaining love every other souls game
@@Lemoncit0 Year late but thx for this! I picked slow strength build in my playthrough. Although I loved the game I fell into this trap as well and felt like I had to resort to cheap strats when I never had that problem with any other souls title. It didn’t feel like a skill ceiling it felt more like the game expected me to play a certain way that I wasn’t interested in and didn’t need to use until near the end. I could have probably done it my way but the repetition and already long length of the game made me not excited to beat the challenge.
@@buster9877 Yeah, in ER boss combat feels less about skill and more like a puzzle on which build would work better , it is definitely not bad but it is a regression compared to previous fromsouls
1. The callback to the getting shot in the leg meme was legendary
2. Person: has their life slightly together. Joe: mArY sUe
3. It _is_ a lifetime. Not a very long one of course
4. Man Joe has an extra dose of reading things that aren't in the text or the subtext this time around, it's great
5. Trees do not burn that fast... Dafuq game. I wish I could start my bonfires that fast
6. Not liking the art style is a really weird reason to not play a game, especially for a critic
7. "Although one of the most emotional and poignant parts of it rings a bit hollow to me..." _oh is this the start of a nuanced tak_ "... and it's kinda dumb" 🫥
8. "I just really didn't like it I don't even know why" and then immediately follows it up with "it was dogshit" 🤦
9. Joseph Anderson professional critic talking about why he didn't like Hades story: "idk, ehh, idk, like, idk, nothing really ... Ehh"
10. Wholeheartedly agree on AI art and copyright. It's really fucked up that the training is done wholesale with no permissions. I would love to be in a world where AI art is trained on the work of people who are paid specifically to do so.
You really love to hate watch, huh?
Person: gives their thoughts and shitposts on video about shitposting on a video game
@@Piano_D : yOuRe SuCh A hAtEr
In Twitch, he’s Joe the weeb streamer.
In TH-cam, he’s Joseph Anderson, the video game critic and independent writer.
You can’t compare him when he’s streaming to when he does his video game analysis.
@@Lord_Sunqu it's not like he has done any actual video game analysis in years
MechanicalMonk malding over the LIS streams will never get old. Thanks for the laugh bud, always entertaining.